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Music-for-picture composers have never had it so good. About 20 years ago, ‘orchestral mock-ups’ required either immense patience, as you navigated the orchestral cards of the Roland JV-1080, or extremely deep pockets, as it cost tens of thousands of pounds to stack multiple hardware samplers together, each of which had a limited memory bank.
The advent of hard-disk recording confined such limitations to the past but unlimited recording time is the merely tip of the creative iceberg for media composers these days. We’ve even passed the days of libraries that ‘only’ offer standard orchestral articulations – legato, staccato, pizzicato, etc – and arrived in a brave new world where modern orchestral sample instruments provide inspiring, textural
